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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I asked a former coworker I haven’t seen in a decade if she wanted to go lie in the grass and cry with me and she said yes enthusiastically so I think I will start asking other people this rather than drinks/coffee

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Good morning to poets starting over again

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"The Earl of Cattenborough will be Pleased to Partake of a Potato." Europa's Fairy Book. Joseph Jacobs, New York, 1916.

Ink drawing of an old man offering a potato to a delighted cat.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe

A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“Plunge. Me. Daddy. I’ve never. Met an iceberg. I didn’t want / to swallow / whole, never / met a half- / woman I didn’t / want to cultivate / a garden with. You know the metaphor, right?” —Zoë Fay-Stindt beestungmag.com/issue15/thre...

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Three Poems by Zoë Fay-Stindt – beestung

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Eventually, I hope she gives up on wanting to rip herself, on seeing the shredder as a secret kind of weapon." 3 stories by Kara Crawford (@kara-c.bsky.social): "Corporate Life," "Co-Work," & "Slumber Party!" / New today at AC

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KARA CRAWFORD / 3 STORIES — always crashing

Corporate Life In the downtown office building, the marketing intern is tasked with shredding sensitive documents. This is not marketing, but she has to do it anyway. All the important people in thei...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"William Faulkner says kill your darlings. I say drag your dead darlings around with you everywhere you go and try to prop them up in everything you write and see how they do as ghosts." - Sabrina Orah Mark

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

AI in academia conversation is completely warped by how only professors platformed to write about it are tenured at elite schools. What works in a 12-person Princeton classroom has basically no relationship to your average college's 40 person online class taught by an underpaid adjunct...

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

happy mother's day to these icons

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

is karl ove knausgaard the most normal norwegian because if so then boy howdy are yall in trouble

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 08/01/2026

MN state is being denied access to evidence It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die

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Minneapolis ICE shooting updates: State denied access to evidence

The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, captured on video, sparked widespread anger over immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and the country.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Fuck ICE. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy.

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

we are open 💅

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We’ve been playing hide and seek for quite some time, and I think I’ve been defeated by a master.

Photo of a black and white cat on a green and brown climbing tree. Her face is obscured by a shelf.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I read a lot of short story collections but I can’t think of any that are fucked up enough for this syllabus, but maybe a practitioner can @hughsheehy.bsky.social @maeganpoland.bsky.social @leeches.bsky.social

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social. I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today. My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.

A picture of my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen.

A picture of a page from the book. The story is “Ichor.” There’s a simple illustration of a witch.

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

i mean i wouldn't be mad... cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social 💜💜💜

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic

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Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

brb going on book tour with my emotional support imodium

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Found this in a notebook today & couldn’t remember what prompted me to write it, or even what meeting I was in when I wrote it.

Note that says: the surveillance is the punishment.

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I had a nightmare that was a mash up between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. 😬

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Hollie Marquess @holliem.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Inside a Wild West Brothel

Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 10/14/2025 · 42m

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore. Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

i think there should be a program that pairs the emotionally needy with recovering alcoholics who haven’t made new friends sober yet. sort of a big brother/sister program for impossibly dysregulated people

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Things that have the same energy: 1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list. 2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Almost stepped on this baby today 🐍

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.

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Breezy (they/them) @abitchislive.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 03/09/2025

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

The anonymous game developer who is out £80,000 says it well, referring to PayPal's ability to withhold their funds: "We don't make anything illegal, but when almost every bank is collectively saying 'we don't do business with you if you make content X or Y,' then the content almost becomes functionally illegal."

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I love the smell of office supplies that have never seen the sunlight.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 30/08/2025

excited to announce the fourth issue of New Session, the world's premiere telnet-based literary magazine "Upheaval" submissions are open today, and close November 7th, for a December release read the guidelines and theme here: anewsession.com/issue4

Image of a CRT screen showing Upheaval repeated over and over, with New Session Issue 4 and December 2025 in the text

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Our Kathryn Davis Symposium with @kellylink.bsky.social is a couple of weeks away! Our Symposium series (this is the 2nd one) celebrates an under-read living writer. We're hoping this becomes a pretty special annual event that introduces readers to great writers portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

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Kathryn Davis Symposium with Kelly Link

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The Town-Ho is hunting sperm whales 🤨 ok

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Timely, no? “Louis XVI Goes To The Guillotine” by Benjamin Péret and translated by Charles Simic.

A photo of a poem in an anthology. The poem begins with…

Stink stink stink /What’s that stink/
It’s Louis XVI that bad egg/and his head drops into the basket/his rotten head

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

this is so upsettingly real

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Disintegration in the wild, shout-out @leeches.bsky.social grab a copy here (or DM us directly) -- asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

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demon grrl | cyberdemon era @demongrrl.gay · 24/07/2025

Me getting home from work this afternoon having been off socials all day

A four panel meme from the Doctor Who episode 'Boom Town', of the 9th Doctor reading a newspaper, looking at the camera, saying "And I was having such a nice day.", then showing the newspaper to the camera, which has been edited to show the headline "Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted"

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T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Book Mail from @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social of @leeches.bsky.social's newest book!!! www.carrionbloom.com/books/p/leec...

Book Cover. Titled I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen by Cat Ingrid Leeches.

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Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Get your copy!! Seriously!!

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rdanielbrown.bsky.social @rdanielbrown.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

please believe me when i say you REALLY want to get this book !!

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Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Some folks have started receiving their preorders of I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, and I’ve loved seeing your photos and messages. Thank you for sharing them with me! If you haven’t picked up a copy yet and would like to, it’s still available through @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.

A copy of my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, peeking out from beneath a sculpture/bench. The sculpture looks like a bird but has four fingered hands.

In the foreground: my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen.
In the background: Leonora Carrington’s sculpture, Cocodrilo, in Mexico City.

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